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afghani Tweet Definition of afghani Like Definition of afghani on Facebook
noun (wikipedia, Afghan afghani)
  1. A monetary currency being used in Afghanistan, divided into 100 pul.
     
allowance Tweet Definition of allowance Like Definition of allowance on Facebook
noun 
  1. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --Shak.
  1. Acknowledgment.
The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others. --Shak.
  1. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
I can give the boy a handsome allowance. --Thackeray.
  1. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
After making the largest allowance for fraud. --Macaulay.
  1. (commercial) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
     
Angel Tweet Definition of Angel Like Definition of Angel on Facebook
proper noun 
  1. (given name, male), from Angelo or an anglicized spelling of í�ngel.
  2. (given name, female) from the English noun angel.
  3. (baseball) A player on the team the "w:Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim".
    • Smith became an as a result of a pre-season trade.
     
Anna Tweet Definition of Anna Like Definition of Anna on Facebook
proper noun 
  1. (given name, female, from Hebrew, ) periodically popular as a variant of Ann in English.
  2. Ann, the apocryphal mother of Virgin Mary.
  3. (biblical character) A prophetess who saw the infant Jesus ( Luke 2:36-38)
     
AS Tweet Definition of AS Like Definition of AS on Facebook
abbreviation 
  1. Anglo-Saxon
  2. Advanced Supplementary
  3. (neurology) Asperger's Syndrome
  4. (geography) American Samoa
     
asper Tweet Definition of asper Like Definition of asper on Facebook
adjective 
  1. rough, Rough or harsh; severe, stern, serious.
     
at Tweet Definition of at Like Definition of at on Facebook
noun 
  1. (context, currency) A subdivision of the Laotian kip, 100 at=1 kip
     
attribution Tweet Definition of attribution Like Definition of attribution on Facebook
noun (plural: attributions)
  1. Gerund form of attribute; an explicit or formal acknowledgment of ownership or authorship.
     
avo Tweet Definition of avo Like Definition of avo on Facebook
noun 
  1. A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Macanese pataca.
     

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